New Age Bullshit Generator
Namaste. Do you want to sell a New Age product and/or service? Tired of coming up with meaningless copy for your starry-eyed customers? Want to join the ranks of bestselling self-help authors? We can help.
Just click and the truth will manifest
Click the Reionize electrons button at the top of the page to generate a full page of New Age poppycock.
The inspiration for this idea came from watching philosophy debates involving Deepak Chopra. I wrote a blog post about it if you're interested.
After sitting through hours of New Age rhetoric, I decided to have a crack at writing code to generate it automatically and speed things up a bit. I cobbled together a list of New Age buzzwords and cliché sentence patterns and this is the result.
...You’ll get some profound-sounding nonsense here, too.
So, what is this for? Put it on your website as placeholder text. Print it out as a speech for your yoga class and see if anyone can guess a computer wrote it. Use it to write the hottest new bestseller in the self-help section, or give false hope to depressed friends and family members.
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Seb Pearce - On the New Age Bullshit Generator and parodying woo
Link to the Generator: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
(Yes, it’s open source: GitHub link)A while back, I was on a philosophy debate binge. Watching Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens annihilate their opponents with precision and wit is my idea of a good night in, and YouTube’s “related videos” are a deep, dark rabbithole.
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Finally an awesome example of NLP. Some of these items are pretty cool sounding too. Best of all it's open source... :)
(via Beyond Search - Natural Language Processing Used to Serve Up Cynicism)
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